RFID for Data Center Tracking

ODIN's founder and Author of RFID for Dummies, Patrick J. Sweeney II, refers to the role most data center managers and sysadmins hate more than anything as "parasitic". What he is talking about is the counting, finding and auditing of IT Assets.

In his years of running data centers, Sweeney realized that the intellectual property and the accuracy of change management was critical to the success of any data center operation - but using highly skilled sysadmins, engineers and executives to count (either with a bar code or a pen and paper) and find servers, switches, and other data center gear was draining value from any organization. Those roles are a waste of time, money and value. That should be time spent adding value to the data center or company. That's why Sweeney started ODIN nearly a decade ago, and that is why RFID is the perfect technology to add value to the data center. Tracking servers with RFID, autoamting the audit and change maangement function iwth RFID is a huge value creating opportunity.

Want more bang for your IT buck? If a well-documented, less than 12 month ROI is intriguing, or you have skilled resources in your data center or IT organization who you would rather use for value-add services (instead of counting and writing) please download and read ODIN's Data Center Efficiency ROI Analysis created by leveraging new RFID 2.0.

ODIN is the world’s leading RFID Company, but few people know that ODIN’s founder Patrick J. Sweeney II began investigating RFID in the late 1990’s as a way to track servers in a high-security data center when he was President & CEO of ServerVault. His extensive data center knowledge led him to develop what is now the leading data center IT asset tracking solution on the market.

ODIN's RFID Data Center and Server Tracking

ODIN's turn-key solution has a return on investment in less than 12 months. It is based on the award winning I AM asset tracking software, and ODIN's RFID Software for accuracy and scalability. The primary benefits of the system are:

• 61% cost reduction in operations expense
• Increased security
• 10x increase in data accuracy by eliminating manual data entry
• Decrease in energy costs by identifying unused assets still drawing power ($2,500/yr/device)
• Easier compliance by having an automated audit trail
• 100% compliance and assurance of decomissioned or destroyed hard drives and servers
• Average 14% reduction in Sarbanes Oxley compliance costs
• ODIN’s solution is pre-packaged and includes everything a company needs to full enable server and device tracking
• Now ODIN's Data Center Solution based on I AM is available fully functional on the iPad

RFID Asset Tracking Solution

The system includes RFID hardware, RFID software, and world-class RFID engineering services. The key to the success of ODIN’s RFID data center tracking solution is the ODIN labs. The ODIN RFID team has leveraged a deep understanding of the physics surrounding radio frequency identification to ensure 99.9% read accuracy. Knowing which RFID tag, reader, handheld and table are the right choices for your specific needs is critical to success and reducing support costs for an RFID data center solution.

If you are looking to save money and increase security in your “Lean and green” data center then you need an RFID asset tracing system. Contact one of the data center experts at OIDN who will not only give you the best RFID advice, but speaks the language of the data center as well.

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